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GERMAN SUPPLIES NOT WANTED. PATRIOT!,, ACSTRALiAN.-.. tly cable.—Press Association. —Copyright i Svdiuv, October 27. The City Council electric lighting committee was discus-lug the aceeptance of tender--, ' whc.i AMennail .Meagher moved that during the c«iiitinuanco of the war a ten per cent, preference 'be. given (.., Empire-mad.! articles. Other councillors strongly approved the nrinciplc, come favourim"; •preference all (be iime. |! was pointed out that ninety per i,.e ; .i. 0 f |], ( , (;,.,„, irad'u;.:; in electrical goods in England were se.liinUy l.'crmau companies, so ihove was iuv.l of ciuiiion in alloti'mr,' lenders. Tlic. maltei- was left in the hands of a suh-conmiitico. llrl! "lie, October 27.
Melbourne City Council dLeii-scd the electric, suredc eomindtiVs report in eoiineciioii witii lltr- extension of o'kln't at a cost of £7l 000. and decided that tenders should -he called for Rritish-made machinery. No lender in which German or Austrian canilal or work- is concerned will be eon-adored.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 28 October 1914, Page 2
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150BRITISH PREFERENCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 28 October 1914, Page 2
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